France & Iberia 2018

“A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea…Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.”
― Tim Cahill
  
La vuelta de Francía, España y Portugal
 
On this 125 days during cycle tour I rode in 93 day stages from Northern Germany along the North Sea and Atlantic coasts down to Tarifa and Gibraltar, then along the Mediterranean coast to Barcelona, through France to Colmar and back in Germany via Mannheim and Würzburg back home.
 
Route summary figures: PDF